Posted on 10/11/2019 4:13:29 PM PDT by simpson96
The Grand Ole Opry House 40th Anniversary Celebration on March 15, 2014 kicked off with the newest members of the Opry, Old Crow Medicine Show, leading the cast in a show-opening performance of Opry patriarch Roy Acuff's "Wabash Cannonball." The show began just as the very first Opry performance at the Opry House did, with video footage of Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys from 1940 performing the band's signature song. That performance transitioned to footage of Acuff and the Opry cast singing the song on March 15, 1974 before finally seamlessly transitioning to the curtain going up on Old Crow and a stage full of other performers that night finishing the number for the live audience.
"Wabash Cannonball" - Grand Ole Opry House 40th Anniversary Opening
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When I was in the 7th or 8th grade we learned to square dance to The Wabash Cannonball. Now in my late 60’s bluegrass is my favorite music, but square dancing is past me now.
My favorite Roy Acuff song is “The Great Speckled Bird”, tho I don’t know exactly what it means.
“Old Crow Medicine Show”
Great group that can put the old and new together.
If you haven’t heard them before, give them a listen. Check out their version of “Wagon Wheel”.
It’ll make you smile.
corny and old fashioned but who am I to deny others what turns them on? Can u say the same 4 leftists? They have sex with barnyard animals.
Such a great song.
Like just about every song, the Carter Family version is head and shoulders above all others. (Linked below).
I love the language in the Carter Family’s lyrics where AP Carter has the original language:
“Listen to the Jingle, rumor and the roar”
Not “rumble”.
Rumor meaning continuous, confused noise; clamor; din.
“Hear the merry hobos squall”. Not “call”.
“He’ll be carried off to victory”.
Not “we’ll carry him off to victory”
This latter lyric greatly changes the connotation of the line.
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Still, yeah, I like this 2014 get together and performance.
Very nice. I just watched episode 2 of “Country Music” last night.
I’ve been surprised what a central role Ketch Secor has played at the Grand Ole Opry.
I hadn’t thought of Old Crow as a Nashville music industry band.
Wow, never heard that one before, thanks for posting.
I met Randy Weaver at a gun show when he was selling his book. He was a very nice and humble man. Terrible shame that there was never a day of reckoning for the murderers of Ruby Ridge.
Someone is mathematically impaired. 2014 would have been the 89.4th Anniversary of the Opry.
Started November, 1925. Went national in 1939.
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Also the name of the hippie newspaper in Atlanta in the 1960s. At that point, I understood it to be a reference to flipping off "The Man".
The song probably refers to the Lord's statement in Jeremiah 12:5-17. Verse 9: "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour."
Thanks and interesting.
“Someone is mathematically impaired.”
This was the 40th anniversary of the new Opry, which opened in 1974, the day after the original Opry’s last performance at the Ryman.
The Texas Longhorn Marching Band has always done a great version.
They also do a good job on “I’ve been working on the railroad”.
I am not a particular fan of Texas A&M but I love the Aggie War Hymn. I do wish I knew what a canneck was.
Country Music on PBS.org the history of the Opry
I have read that the biggest reception ever given an artist at the opry was Hank Williams when he sang, “Lovesick Blues”.
Or was it, “I’m so lonesome I could cry”.
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